{"id":42625,"date":"2024-03-05T06:32:23","date_gmt":"2024-03-05T11:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=42625"},"modified":"2024-03-05T06:32:23","modified_gmt":"2024-03-05T11:32:23","slug":"tuesday-digital-doodle-type-of-the-living-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2024\/03\/05\/tuesday-digital-doodle-type-of-the-living-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday Digital Doodle \u2022 Type of the Living Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"42638\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2024\/03\/05\/tuesday-digital-doodle-type-of-the-living-dead\/zombie-type-black-background\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/zombie-type-black-background.jpg?fit=1000%2C360&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1000,360\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1709390335&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;zombie type-black background&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"zombie type-black background\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/zombie-type-black-background.jpg?fit=640%2C230&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-42638\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/zombie-type-black-background.jpg?resize=640%2C230&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/zombie-type-black-background.jpg?w=1000&amp;ssl=1 1000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/zombie-type-black-background.jpg?resize=300%2C108&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/zombie-type-black-background.jpg?resize=768%2C276&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Affinity<\/em> recently updated their whole suite of desktop publishing applications to version 2.4 so I&#8217;ve been trying to catch up with some of the new features of these programs. I&#8217;ve been mostly playing with <em>Affinity Designer<\/em> which is their vector art program. I have used a number of other vector art programs like <em>CorelDraw<\/em> and <em>Adobe Illustrator<\/em>, but Affinity&#8217;s is my absolute favorite. It&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve used to produce the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/willceau\/albums\/72157711550014901\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Halloween Heads<\/em><\/a> and my recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/willceau\/albums\/72177720315180926\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>School Days<\/em><\/a> illustrations. Recently I have been playing with type and textures which brings us to today&#8217;s post.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>With the release of the new version of the <em>Affinity<\/em> suite comes a boatload of video tutorials that I am getting caught up on. At the beginning of the digital desktop revolution, one would have to rely on the massive instruction manual that came with a particular program or wait for one of those <em>&#8220;Up and Running with&#8230;&#8221;<\/em> books to be published in order to learn what to do. Now there is an army of amateurs and pros throwing their video <em>&#8220;how-to&#8217;s&#8221;<\/em> at the internet for free. I took a look at a number of videos familiarizing myself with what&#8217;s new and played with some of my old photos along with stuff cribbed from the internet.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Zombie Type Treatment\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/willceau\/53561800594\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53561800594_674300b528_c.jpg?resize=640%2C499&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Zombie Type Treatment\" width=\"640\" height=\"499\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nBack when I was attending the Philadelphia College of Art, I was chided by more than one professor for dwelling on morbid or horrific subject matter as far as my illustration and design work was concerned. I guess they thought I would never get hired based on a portfolio built from my school work &#8212; not that I had any intention of building a portfolio from my school work. My school work was tentative and slapdash, and I was a complete disaster with wet media at the time. My true learning was to come after I left school. I assembled a more accessible portfolio filled with cartoons and editorial illustrations, and I soon found freelance work. The lesson was to give the client what they asked for, and if they were happy, they invited you back. I was invited back.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Dr. Shock &amp; Bubbles\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/willceau\/2375177484\/in\/photolist-4BTpvW-6eg9ut-6KJhPA-7UeTUo-n4HYTB\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\" data-header=\"true\" data-footer=\"true\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/3201\/2375177484_9e15be21aa_m.jpg?resize=164%2C240&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Dr. Shock &amp; Bubbles\" width=\"164\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>I never produced the work that teachers seemed to prefer, and I was never sure what they preferred. They always seemed to be somewhat obtuse and would rarely ever offer a definitive opinion. Maybe I am stupid, but I had a hard time translating their mewling utterances into colloquial English. I wasn&#8217;t raised on a farm. I never took nature hikes. I didn&#8217;t know who <em>Beatrix Potter<\/em> was. I grew up watching cartoons, praying that a Phillies game wasn&#8217;t going to preempt <em>Dr. Shock<\/em> and essentially basking in trash. When I was little, there was a cardboard box filled with comics that I would regularly flip through drinking in each panel. If I was really bored, I would leaf through a massive Philadelphia Yellow Pages fascinated by the exterminator ads featuring colossal cockroaches, towering termites and ravenous rats as well as the auto body ads featuring wrecked cars. I loved the combination of black ink on that terrible yellow newsprint. I loved trash. Yeah, I was a weird kid, and I probably should have gone outside to touch grass.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still that weird kid. When I&#8217;m not working for a client, the old monster and horror stuff exudes from me as I doodle. I guess some things never change. Sometimes I wonder if it is like dreams. I always thought that dreams were a way to deal with the collected clutter gathering dust within our skulls. Maybe I am shaking up this dust, and it ends up on either the literal or virtual page.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a title=\"Self Portrait 1982\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/willceau\/23928434262\/in\/photolist-nS9Vng-rmnfAF-vyLmdc-CsttRq-HzeWZb-Jz6osx-JZDVX1-RF2gTc-7Cnhz1-2m9tif3-2pwEo4x-2pwLiiA-2pwT8fi-b3su2Z-b3suPc\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\" data-header=\"true\" data-footer=\"true\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/1688\/23928434262_29b7c6de3b_z.jpg?resize=640%2C389&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Self Portrait 1982\" width=\"640\" height=\"389\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Some things never change. Over my head is a Zombie type treatment I did in a design class back in 1982. I remember my teacher being less than enthused. I liked it.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>Stay tuned for more doodles as well as finished work!<\/em><br \/>\n<script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Affinity recently updated their whole suite of desktop publishing applications to version 2.4 so I&#8217;ve been trying to catch up with some of the new features of these programs. I&#8217;ve been mostly playing with Affinity Designer which is their vector &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2024\/03\/05\/tuesday-digital-doodle-type-of-the-living-dead\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42638,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4953,7,49,4,5790],"tags":[1893,27,4564,76,43,3661,5,712,137,25,1260,480,3660,711],"class_list":["post-42625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-doodle-tuesday","category-illustration","category-it-came-from-the-sketchbook","category-news","category-vector-illustration","tag-dawn-of-the-dead","tag-digital-illustration","tag-font","tag-horror","tag-humor","tag-illustration","tag-joe-williams","tag-night-of-the-living-dead","tag-philadelphia-college-of-art","tag-sketchbook","tag-type","tag-usa","tag-willceau","tag-zombie"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/zombie-type-black-background.jpg?fit=1000%2C360&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-b5v","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":42704,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2024\/03\/19\/tuesday-digital-doodle-automaton-powers-on\/","url_meta":{"origin":42625,"position":0},"title":"Tuesday Digital Doodle \u2022 Automaton Powers On","author":"Joe","date":"March 19, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"This is another vector doodle I did in Affinity Designer. 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